by Russ McKendrick | Feb 22, 2019 | DevOps, Russ McKendrick
So, you’re thinking of moving to a DevOps approach but don’t know where to start? Concerned about how long it will take? Unsure about how to keep up the momentum once you’ve taken the first step? There are many advantages of adopting DevOps, for... 
by Russ McKendrick | Nov 23, 2018 | DevOps, Russ McKendrick
It’s no secret that I like automation, so much so that I wrote a book called Learn Ansible which, as you may have guessed, covers the basic usage Red Hats Ansible. While I try and automate as much as possible, there are a few basic rules I stick to and questions I ask... 
by Russ McKendrick | Oct 4, 2018 | Russ McKendrick, SRE
Key points Building a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability requires changes in hiring, training, and organisation behaviour Adopting SRE needs enhanced trust across the IT organisation An SRE Managed Service can help organisations get the benefits of SRE... 
by Russ McKendrick | Sep 25, 2018 | Russ McKendrick, SRE
Key points Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a radically new approach to IT operations The ‘everything as code’ approach brings a software engineering mindset to operations SRE teams are empowered to say ‘no’ to software with low... 
by Russ McKendrick | Aug 23, 2018 | Azure, Cloud, Russ McKendrick
Earlier this week we had a session at the office with April Edwards from Microsoft about Azure Logic Apps; A huge thank you to @n4stack and @russmckendrick for hosting me in their offices to talk about @logicappsio and automated deployment using #Ansible in #Azure... 
by Russ McKendrick | Aug 15, 2018 | Ansible, DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, Russ McKendrick
Sharing an office with a development team can be a challenge when you are a system administrator, you are always finding yourself doing “quick deploys” or logging into servers to take a look at configuration changes which “didn’t quite go as planned”. As the team I...
